Huzzaifa was a healthy child. His family say the 11-year-old spent the cold winter days “laughing and playing” at his home in the northern Indian state of Haryana. One evening in late January, he came down with a fever. By the next evening, he had died.
At her modest home in Chhainsa village, about 100km from India’s capital Delhi, Huzzaifa’s mother, Shehnaaz, weeps silently as she mourns her son.
